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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˌɪnˈdaɪt/ [US] Audio: en-us-indict.ogg Forms: indicts [present, singular, third-person], indicting [participle, present], indicted [participle, past], indicted [past]
Rhymes: -aɪt Etymology: From Middle English enditen, endyten (“to accuse”), from Old French enditer (“to dictate, indite”), from Late Latin indictāre, frequentative of Latin indicere (“to proclaim”), from in- + dicere (“to say”), or from in- + dictāre (“to say often, to dictate”). Doublet of indite. The irregular spelling is due to the word having been borrowed into Middle English from Old French, and not from Latin as was the case with most other descendants of dictāre (but see dight). The borrowed /iː/ regularly shifted to /aɪ/ in the course of the Great Vowel Shift; the ⟨c⟩ represents a later attempt at graphic Latinisation. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*deyḱ-}}, {{inh|en|enm|enditen}} Middle English enditen, {{der|en|fro|enditer||to dictate, indite}} Old French enditer (“to dictate, indite”), {{der|en|LL.|indictō|indictāre}} Late Latin indictāre, {{cog|la|indicere||to proclaim}} Latin indicere (“to proclaim”), {{doublet|en|indite}} Doublet of indite Head templates: {{en-verb}} indict (third-person singular simple present indicts, present participle indicting, simple past and past participle indicted)
  1. To accuse of wrongdoing; charge. Translations (to accuse of wrongdoing): acusar (Catalan), beschuldigen (Dutch), akuzi (Esperanto), syyttää (Finnish), accuser (French), acusar (Galician), beschuldigen (German), vádol (Hungarian), accusare (Italian), accuso (Latin), متهم کردن (mottaham kardan) (Persian), acusar (Portuguese), обвиня́ть (obvinjátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), обвини́ть (obvinítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), optužiti [perfective] (Serbo-Croatian), acusar (Spanish), beskylla (Swedish), anklaga (Swedish), angripa (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-indict-en-verb-1JBmDQWQ Disambiguation of 'to accuse of wrongdoing': 96 4
  2. (law) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury. Categories (topical): Law Translations (to make a formal accusation or indictment): предявявам обвинение (predjavjavam obvinenie) (Bulgarian), inculpar (Catalan), 起訴 /起诉 (qǐsù) (Chinese Mandarin), obžalovat [perfective] (Czech), aanklagen (Dutch), syyttää (Finnish), inculper (French), acusar (Galician), inculpar (Galician), anklagen (German), beschuldigen (German), vádat emel (Hungarian), megvádol (Hungarian), díotáil (Irish), incriminare (Italian), 起訴する (kiso suru) (alt: きそする) (Japanese), 기소하다 (gisohada) (Korean), crīminō (Latin), acusar (Portuguese), indiciar (Portuguese), обвиня́ть (obvinjátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), обвини́ть (obvinítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), осужда́ть (osuždátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), осуди́ть (osudítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), inculpar (Spanish), åtala (Swedish), cyhuddo (Welsh), ditio (Welsh)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: indictable, indict a ham sandwich, indictment Related terms: indite, endict [archaic], induct

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Alternative forms

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          "text": "“Now, let’s consider what our competition did in the same six-week period,” wrote Betsy Ankney, Haley’s campaign manager. “Donald Trump had a good Q1, if you count being indicted as ‘good.'\"",
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          "text": "a book that indicts modern values",
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          "ref": "2023 September 29, Benjamin Lee, quoting Jonathan Keasey, “OceanGate Titan sub disaster movie in the offing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Co-writer Jonathan Keasey has said the film will aim to indict “our nonstop, 24-7 media cycle that convicts and ruins the lives of so many people without any due process”.",
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          "text": "“Now, let’s consider what our competition did in the same six-week period,” wrote Betsy Ankney, Haley’s campaign manager. “Donald Trump had a good Q1, if you count being indicted as ‘good.'\"",
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "acusar"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "beschuldigen"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "akuzi"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "syyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "accuser"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "acusar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "beschuldigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "vádol"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "accusare"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "accuso"
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "mottaham kardan",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "متهم کردن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "acusar"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obvinjátʹ",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "обвиня́ть"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obvinítʹ",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
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      "word": "обвини́ть"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
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      "word": "optužiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "acusar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "beskylla"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "anklaga"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to accuse of wrongdoing",
      "word": "angripa"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "predjavjavam obvinenie",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "предявявам обвинение"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "inculpar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qǐsù",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "起訴 /起诉"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
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      "word": "obžalovat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "aanklagen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "syyttää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "inculper"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "acusar"
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    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "inculpar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "anklagen"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "beschuldigen"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "vádat emel"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "megvádol"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "díotáil"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "incriminare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "きそする",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kiso suru",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "起訴する"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gisohada",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "기소하다"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "crīminō"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "acusar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "indiciar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obvinjátʹ",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "обвиня́ть"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "obvinítʹ",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "osuždátʹ",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
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      "word": "осужда́ть"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
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      "word": "осуди́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "inculpar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "åtala"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "cyhuddo"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "to make a formal accusation or indictment",
      "word": "ditio"
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    "indictment"
  ],
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}

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